September 26, Saturday

“You only grow as a human being if you’re outside your comfort zone.”    Percy Cerutty

For the last three days I tried to keep a decent workout schedule while preparing for a respectable run on Saturday. Since I plan on running a 5k every Saturday morning for the next six weeks, I need to have a good plan in place. So, I did a 55 minutes easy run on Wednesday, 3000m at Turkey Swamp Park with 10-speed segments on Thursday and one hour in motion on Friday, walking and jogging.  That sequence seemed to work out well as I ran a more than respectable 29:11 on Saturday. As I mentioned in the previous post, I was hoping to break 30:00 five weeks from now when will I return to Holmdel for the final of the six 5K events. I estimated that I ran between 80% and 85% effort today, which means too much time in the comfort zone.  Now I must trust Percy Cerutty and set more challenging goals.  All this much be approached in the context that I set out planning this six-week schedule to be only a means of focusing my training. I must avoid the temptation of making fast times the goal.  But I liked the atmosphere of the race this morning, and I am having fun.

Stats are holding steady and in very good ranges.